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verb

past tense of hear

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Recent Examples of heard
Verb
Fox News Digital obtained shocking audio between Cyrus and his estranged wife where the country crooner is heard berating his Australian ex and using profane language. Ashley Hume, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024 This is what The Athletic has heard about Chelsea’s plans for January so far. Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024 Explosions were also heard in Dnipro, Kremenchuk, Kryvyi Rih, and Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv Independent reported. Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 In a video posted to Kendall's sister Kim Kardashian's story, the SKIMS mogul can be heard asking to take one of the bottles of 818 as a parting gift. Catherine Santino, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024 The attack included ballistic missiles, the station added, with several explosions heard thundering across the city. Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 When reached by The Enquirer Monday evening, Jeffreys had not yet heard ODOT had made the same suggestion. Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 24 Dec. 2024 The revelation that the grand jury has heard more testimony in recent weeks suggests prosecutors are still pursuing new evidence. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024 That very night, British troops heard Germans singing carols and saw decorations poking up from the opposite trenches. Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heard
Adjective
  • Overture would be able to fly at Mach 1.3 (about 1,000 mph) without an audible boom, reducing U.S. coast-to-coast flight times by up to 90 minutes — if there wasn’t a law prohibiting supersonic flights overland.
    Jackie Snow, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The transmission was audible on both aircraft cockpit voice recorders.
    CBS News, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • But as Sophie Turner began appearing in movies and TV shows outside of the Song of Ice and Fire universe, the world quickly realized that the lady has real range.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The sooner that is realized, the easier all paths become.
    Paige Francis, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Arabic-speaking soldiers then listened to these calls to determine whether a wanted militant had been found.
    Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The family and the detectives listened to them.
    KFOX Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Not that the plan is to change — with the subsequent vast squad turnover that follows to no discernible improvement — every two or three years.
    Andy Mitten, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Some of them are pure awful, but others have discernible hints of genius lost amidst all the narrative rubble and CGI noise.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • But once the job became a reality, Williams discovered the job was unsustainable.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The picture, discovered by WMAR-2 reporter Elizabeth Worthington at Vito's Pizza in Baltimore City, depicts Mangione in holy robes with a golden halo, resembling depictions of Jesus Christ.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The demo crew then sawed the tower’s legs and used a truck with a cord to pull it down.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
  • In the living room, the string quartet tuned and sawed to life as hosts Carisa Bianca Mellado and Andrew Dalziell laid out the night’s program: four L.A. film composers leading sets of new piano and string pieces.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Because far-off stars would be static over successive nights, nearer, moving objects would stand out against the backdrop — but, for an object as distant as Pluto, the motion would be barely perceptible.
    John Loeffler, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2025
  • By modernizing systems and processes where unnecessary friction exists, the healthcare industry can make improvements that have a perceptible impact on those delivering and receiving care.
    Amanda Eisel, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Brittany Luse is joined by writer and journalist Ana Marie Cox to get into how people are disentangling alcohol from their lives, and the lessons she's learned as a recovering alcoholic.
    Veralyn Williams, NPR, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Rather, think of inspiration as a set of concrete actions and behaviors that can be learned, practiced, and applied to day-to-day interactions in simple ways.
    Elizabeth Freedman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025

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